Carved wooden ceremonial staff
- Made:
- 1880-1897
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Carved wooden staff, ceremonal, finial in the form of a waterfowl, taken from Benin before the bombardment, 1897, Benin City, Southern Nigeria, 1880-1897
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A160462
- Materials:
- wood
- Measurements:
-
overall: height 1105 mm
finial: height 95 mm
diameter 23 mm
finial: length 72 mm
finial: width 52 mm
- type:
- staffs
- credit:
- Sothebys
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